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Tune out arthritis pain.


Suffering from chronic arthritis arthritis, painful inflammation of a joint or joints of the body, usually producing heat and redness. There are many kinds of arthritis. In its various forms, arthritis disables more people than any other chronic disorder.  pain? It might be time for a little Mozart An earlier screen scraper from Mozart Systems Corporation, Burlingame, CA, that was used to turn a character-based mainframe screen into a Windows or DOS front end via 3270 emulation. Originally named Enter 3270, it was noted for being able to easily combine multiple terminal screens into one. .

Sixty-six Adj. 1. sixty-six - being six more than sixty
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cardinal - being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers"
 elderly arthritis patients took part in a study recently reported in the Journal of Advanced Nursing. Half of the participants sat quietly and listened to 20 minutes of Mozart tunes each day for two weeks. The other half just sat quietly, or read something, for the same period of time. Those in the music group experienced steadily decreasing pain scores over the 14 days, while those in the control group did not.

Music, it seems, can calm the savage beast of arthritis pain as well.

So along with other pain-management techniques such as exercise and your doctor's advice, don't overlook the soothing sooth·ing  
adj.
Tending to soothe.



soothing·ly adv.

sooth
, pain-reducing potential of music.

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Publication:Vibrant Life
Date:Sep 1, 2004
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